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Burghead Harbour: the Moray Council BURGHEAD HARBOUR: THE MORAY COUNCIL Maintenance Dredging of Entrance and Inner Basin MARINE SCOTLAND ACT 2010 APPLICATION FOR DREDGING AND DEPOSIT OF SOLID WASTE IN THE TERRITORIAL SEA AND UK CONTROLLED WATERS ADJACENT TO SCOTLAND BEST PRACTICABLE ENVIRONMENTAL OPTION ASSESSMENT Development & Operations Manager, Harbours Transportation Direct Services The Moray Council High Street 01343 563791 Elgin IV30 1BX [email protected] 1 Document Information Information Document ID BPEO, Burghead Harbour Document Owner Moray Council Issue Date 22/06/20 Last Saved Date File Name Burghead BPEO 22-06-20 Document History Version Issue Date Amendments 1.0 22/06/20 Contents Page 1. Introduction 03 2. Disposal Options 04 3. Environmental Considerations 06 4. Conclusion 07 2 1. Introduction 1.1 Background Moray Council is the Statutory Harbour Authority for 6 harbours extending from Burghead in the west to Cullen in the east. Of these, Buckie and Burghead are classed as the only commercial harbours, the others catering predominantly for the leisure market. Buckie handles cargo vessels and fish landings, and Burghead combines fish landings with leisure craft. In order to maintain depth in the entrances and basins all these harbours, maintenance dredging is required. At the smaller leisure harbours, the rate of infill is such as to require dredging once every two or three years. At Buckie and Burghead however, dredging needs to be undertaken annually to maintain the depth in the entrance channels. 3 year licences for sea disposal were previously granted for both Buckie and Burghead by Marine Scotland in 2018. The material removed from the Council’s harbours has to be disposed of in accordance with guidance from Marine Scotland. This document assesses the options available for disposal and examines the Best Practical Environmental Option (BPEO) in accordance with the requirement of Part 4 of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010. 1.2 Source of Materials The sediments generally enter from seaward, mainly as a result of wave action during storm conditions. In each harbour, the coarse sandy material accumulates in the approach channels. The finer sand and silt placed in suspension by the waves is carried into the harbour basins by tidal currents. The relatively still conditions then allow settlement and deposition. 1.3 Description of Materials The material is predominantly sand and silt. Apart from the discharge from local surface water drains and small watercourses, no other material enters the basins to contaminate the sediments. The material transported by wave action is composed predominantly of sand moved from areas of high wave energy, and from areas with no known sources of appreciable pollution. Consequently, it is considered that given the relatively small quantities to be removed from the harbours, the best disposal option is to return it to the marine environment. 1.4 Sediment Risk Assessment A report of the Sediment Risk Analysis carried out by Envirocentre Limited in June is submitted as a separate document. 1.5 Method of Removal & Relocation All of the maintenance dredging in Moray Council harbours is now undertaken with the Council vessel MV Selkie, which has been designed specifically to work in the smaller harbours around the coast. The vessel is equipped with a long reach excavator, enabling dredging down to a depth of 9 metres, and is based at Buckie Harbour as home port. Disposal takes place at sea with the excavator as the vessel is not equipped with bottom doors. Further details about the vessel can be found in Appendix 1 on page 8. There are two options for disposal of the material removed by dredging: i) continued relocation of material at sea in a controlled manner ii) disposal on land 3 The dredging operation involves removal of the material from the sea bed, transportation to a disposal site and relocation in that location. The current dredging requirement in the Moray Council harbours necessitates the use of floating plant. Few of the dredging locations are accessible from the shore. Along with other factors such as the requirement to have a minimal impact on the normal harbour activity and the size and access constraints of the harbours, the most practical and economic method of dredging is to use the new vessel designed for the job. For the vessel to transfer material ashore after completion of loading would require double handling into temporary shore based storage facilities or vehicles. 1.6 Previous Maintenance Dredging at Burghead (10 years) Annual total m3 2010 11466 2011 10024 2012 9470 2013 10530 2014 8000 2015 7999 2016 7575 2017 8610 2018 8545 2019 2318 Material dredged from the harbour has previously been disposed of at sea. The location is licensed by Marine Scotland under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010.. A diagram of the dump site at 57°43.50N 003°31.00W can be found in Appendix 2 on page 8. 1.7 Designated Bathing Water Sites The 2 designated bathing water sites nearest to the sea disposal site are as follows: Nairn (East) is a relatively wide bay, about 1km long. There are 2 designated bathing waters at Nairn which are separated by the mouth of the River Nairn. This was designated in 1987. The distance from Nairn to the sea disposal site is approximately 30km. Cullen Bay is a sandy beach about 1km long. It is located between the villages of Cullen and Portknockie and was designated in 1987. The distance from Cullen Bay to the sea disposal site is approximately 50km. Due to the distances involved, it is considered that the option of sea disposal at the site licensed by Marine Scotland poses no risk to these designated bathing waters. 2. Disposal Options 2.1 Temporary Storage 2.1.1 At a land based site The use of a quayside holding or storage area requires the identification of a suitable site of adequate capacity. This would in effect act as a settlement basin, with the resulting problems of containing the material and discharging surplus water at an acceptable solids concentration, the safety of the public and harbour users, and wind-blown particles causing interference across the wider area in dry conditions. 4 2.1.2 At a marine site If material was dumped for subsequent re-dredging, a suitably sheltered location would have to be found. In practice this would mean dumping in the harbour itself. Dispersion of the material over the harbour bed during dumping would be a cause for concern, as would the loss of quayside and berthing space. There would also be risk of spillage into the harbour and onto the quayside. 2.1.3 Method of relocation/removal of stored material Movement of material either from the dredger or a dump to the final site would require the provision of extra plant and equipment, substantially increasing the cost and duration of the operation. The risks of spillage and contamination would also increase due to double handling. 2.2 Permanent Disposal 2.2.1 Land Disposal As the main component of the dredge spoil is sand, incineration of the material is not economically viable. This disposal option can therefore be discounted. 2.2.2 Sacrificial Landfill There are no landfill sites within easy reach of any of the Moray Council harbours and the Council facilities are not able to accept the quantities involved, even when dried. 2.2.4 Spreading on Agricultural Land Due to the high salt content, the dredged material is unsuitable for spreading on farmland. Removal of the salt from the material is not economically viable. 2.2.5 Land Reclamation There is no local demand for the use of dredged material for land reclamation. To transport the material further afield would be not economically viable. 2.2.6 Beach Nourishment There is a local beach just south of Burghead that has experienced erosion of 0.596 – 0.30 m loss from 1970 to Modern, according to DynamicCoast.com. There are other areas suffering similar losses east of Findhorn and between Findhorn and Nairn. In order to disperse dredged material onto the local beach site, it would have to be transferred from the dredger to a holding basin or directly to road haulage units. This would involve a crane and a fleet of heavy road vehicles. The risk of spillage and contamination combined with the additional resources required and expense incurred mean this is not a viable option. The increase in the use of heavy haulage in the local villages would be socially unacceptable. Heavy machinery would be required to move the material on the beach, which may disturb the vegetated shingle and create an artificial profile. Regular recycling and re-nourishment at this site would be required causing disturbance to wild life. Transporting dredged material 10 – 20 miles by road to sites further afield would be very expensive. 2.2.7 Concrete Manufacture The prohibitive cost of salt removal means this method of disposal is not viable. There is only 1 local supplier of ready mix concrete, which has its own quarries producing sand and gravel. 2.2.8 Licensed Disposal at Sea 5 The alternative to land disposal is to continue with the established method of placing the material in a licensed site at sea. This option allows the Council to utilise its own vessel, and returns material derived almost entirely from coastal waters to those same waters. This method avoids double handling of material, temporary storage on land, transport of material by road, the reduction of landfill capacity and minimises the possibility of contamination and spillage. Sea disposal has negligible impact on harbour users or the local community if managed correctly. A comparison of the costs involved in these disposal options can be found in the table below.
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